RAMBLE TO US KING, TELL US ABOUT RUSH'S BACKSTORY
So, Rush’s backstory, abridged. [MAIN AU/MAIN AU VARIANTS ONLY]
DOES NOT APPLY TO TO POLY AU/INGENS RAPAX
Originally, I was gonna make a fic called gutter rat but I lost motivation. But I’ll leave the undeveloped version so I can slowly develop it later.
Doing/releasing this for fun! Yipee!
Born into the sewer to a single mother. Either the only survivor of its litter or it had no siblings to begin with.
Earliest memories are of it kneading into its mama’s fur and running water.
Rush might’ve actually learned a different language from her, but I’m not going to force ANYTHING NEW about Rush.
Yep, Rush is a mama’s boy.
They both lived underneath
She was big, soft. She had smoky fur like Rush’s. The smile. Though she was
Rush’s mother also was extremely sick and very, very hyper paranoid that something would happen to her only living offspring. So they never, really fully entered the hotel.
To be fair, a lifetime in the sewers will do that to you.
The two lived in the sewers beneath the hotel, Rush would occasionally emerge from the sewers and play with the other tiny entities under its mother’s surveillance.
Rush played with Ambush the most frequently.
Rushlet and Ambushling. :)
Rush would return and curl up next to its mother at night and eat little things of sewer algae and whack at tiny bits of algae.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.
I don’t know how Rush’s mother died yet, since it’s notoriously difficult to kill an entity. But Rush found her cold. Fading away into flaking pieces. Her energy field collapsing and decomposing.
It curled up near her and just..cried. Because it was a child and it didn’t know what to do. Kneading cold skin and fur.
Rush tried to go to the hotel but got lost in the sewers.
And it spent YEARS in what it considered to be emotional and physical hell.
Also how it learned to swim. (Nearly drowned a few times in floodings. Traumatizing it more.)
Would get into nasty piss fights with other entities down there, would occasionally receive injuries from hitting sharp parts of walls.
Became a HUGE asshole to protect itself physically and emotionally and started going out of its way to attack or bully entities who were in its territory.
Eventually, it found the hotel again.
Decided to start living there.
Unfortunately, Rush was still a bully. Especially towards Figure (who, was a child of a single parent..and lived happily. Yipee! Projection!) But
Would tear up Figure’s books in front of it, steal books from its hands, knock shit over on the library, say rude shit.
Rush was a young adult by then just a reference for time passed.
Uhhh the bullying quickly ended when Figure told Rueben about the bullying and one night, Rush comes into the library and the little fucker gets knocked out by a angry tiny man in a cowboy hat.
Imagine the markiplier punching you meme. That’s Rueben. Pissed off country boy gave Rush the gatlinburg gas fire.
Once it was knocked out it dragged that lil shit out of the the library door and yelled “- AND IF I TRACK YA DOWN IN THE ACT OF BROWNEATIN ‘MAH KID AGAIN BY JAMES I’LL PUT A GODDAMNED BULLET HOLE IN YER HEAD!” Before tossing it out like a sack of potatoes.
Right in front of everyone too.
Ambush still had a crush from when it was a child that never really went away.
“I mean, it’s not like it bullied me yet-“ *Depth stares in horror.*
Depth was scared/mad when it found out because Rush at the time was a walking red flag and definitely not the same entity they played with as a child.
Ambush went ahead, and somehow managed to befriend Rush.
Rush also, had a crush. Thought to be honest it had a lot of self loathing so. didn’t think it deserved nice things.
Eventually, Rush had a mental breakdown (still trying to figure out what triggered said event ^) and went back to the sewers, but Ambush followed.
Rush showed its metaphorical underbelly to Ambush that night and expected to be killed but instead its pain was validated and it was comforted..??
..and then the two confessed to each other and then Ambush had a really important conversation with it.
Basically the TDLR is “If you want me, you need to treat other entities with the same love, dignity and respect I treat you with.”
All (almost all ) the hate for itself, the world and others melted out of its body. Leaving something soft behind that Ambush gently embraced.
Not to say all the mean parts left..but..
Yea its life changed in that sewer.
They also loudly made out down there.
When it came up it apologized to Figure and eventually everyone realized Rush kinda just. Unassed it’s hole.
Ambush really said “I could fix it” and then DID.
Well, I mean too be fair, It was mostly all Rush but if the two hadn’t revealed their most deepest, intimate secrets and traumas to each other I don’t think they would’ve gotten anywhere good.
Yes. Ambush is aware of all of this.
If Rush ever saw the movie it would cry during the entirety of the Bambi movie.
“It’s okay pookie! The fawn grows up and falls in love!!” “RWAUUUGH HE LOST HIS MAMAAAA!!”
Rush HATES the cold. HATES. HATES. And if it feels too cold it’ll start to excessively groom itself, Ambush, and its children until it they feel warm again.
The leftover asshole parts still linger I just gotta figure out which parts of Rush’s psyche would lash out in an unjustified manner.
